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Homilies on Numbers, Homilia V · §3

Levites at work and the journey to promise

But let us return to the point. The Levites must work and bear the loads. Pillars and courts are borne by Levites, not by common Israelites — and angels snatch up some who are light, purged of faults, while they still carry others weighed by remnants of sin. May the Lord grant that, borne by such workers, we be freed from the arrow that flies in darkness and the noonday demon, until we reach the place of promise through Christ our Lord, to whom be honor and dominion forever. Amen.

Latin

Sed ad propositum revertamur. Oportet Levitas operari et onera portare. Columnae et atria portantur a Levitis, non ab Israelitis communibus — angeli quosdam rapiunt leves a delictis, alios adhuc praegravatos portant. Concedat Dominus ut a talibus operariis portati liberemur a sagitta volante in tenebris et a daemonio meridiano, donec veniamus ad locum repromissionis per Christum Dominum nostrum, cui honor et imperium in saecula. Amen.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia V on Numbers (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–3.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII (GCS 30, 1921), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia V. Scheck FOTC was not used as wording. This page is Homilia V §§1–3 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII = GCS 30 (1921) (Latin · Homilia V §§1–3)

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